Sentences with phrase «by oil infrastructure»

The gut - check issue for McKibben and his supporters — thousands of whom turned out for a mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17 — is the Keystone XL pipeline, a 3,400 - mile pipe proposed by oil infrastructure company TransCanada that will allow crude oil extracted from the tar sands of Alberta, in southern Canada, to be refined on the Gulf of Mexico.

Not exact matches

«With the financial support provided by Siva along with the strong base in the Dandaragan operations, the resulting quality of our extra virgin olive oil, the establishment of relationships with key bulk buyers, and the expansion of infrastructure and operating capacity, the Olea Australis Group intends to achieve its goal of an on going sustainable business that is a long - term participant in the continued growth of extra virgin olive oil in Australia and throughout the world.»

Speaking at the CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston, Cornyn and Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski warned the taxes could hold back investments in oil and gas infrastructure, alienate allies and water down the benefits of tax cuts and deregulation.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Sources reported that an armed militia from Zintan, directly linked to the heavily armed Petroleum Facilities Guard, which was set up to protect the country's oil and gas infrastructure, has closed the El Feel and Hamada fields by blocking their respective pipelines.

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«The Achilles heel of the industry may be that people are very resistant to construction of necessary infrastructure,» stated the report, which was sponsored by half a dozen oil and gas companies and two law firms representing them and included a list of the type of people opposing pipelines and their motivations.

COVER STORY: INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT SUSTAINS GROWTH By Gordon Platt High oil prices are keeping government spending flowing strongly into major projects, while debt - laden Dubai has taken a turn for the better.

Porter also said he is frustrated by the lack of progress on energy infrastructure — particularly on the Energy East project, a pipeline proposed by TransCanada Corp. (TSX: TRP) that would ship 1.1 million barrels of Alberta oil per day to refineries in Eastern Canada.

Rather than follow a disastrous road taken by some of her predecessors, and slash funding to government services while the price of oil is low, the NDP government is taking an opportunity to invest in much needed public infrastructure when the economy is slow and the price is right.

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There will only be the Brexit message — simple, emotionally compelling and spread by a well - oiled media infrastructure.

In the light of the crash in global crude oil price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on oil and gas infrastructure in the oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the government.

For months, the United States has been frustrated by the Islamic State's ability to keep producing and exporting oil — what Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter recently called «a critical pillar of the financial infrastructure» of the group — which generates about $ 40 million a month, or nearly $ 500 million a year, according to Treasury Department estimates.

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

On May 20, 2015, nine days BEFORE the government was inaugurated, I laid out «Policy Prescriptions» - diversification of production, government revenue, and exports; imperative of a strong and credible economic team and cabinet; targeting «opportunity sectors» (solid minerals, refining and petrochemicals, a new and realistic fiscal regime for upstream oil and gas, private sector investments in power and infrastructure, agro-processing, retail and construction); freeing «up resources from downstream petroleum sector deregulation» emphasizing «an economic reality in which hard decisions including some previously rebuffed by the opposition will have to be taken» a clear reference to the petrol subsidy which government waited a full year before countenancing the critical decision!

The GOC, who noted that the Army Division would continue to maintain operational tempo to consolidate on the gains it achieved during the exercise, reiterated the resolve to defeat «any attempt at brazen attacks on national critical infrastructure, oil and gas resources and overall strangulation of the socio - economy of law abiding citizenry by any group of militants or criminals».

«To sponsor the Ghana Premier league with capital injection of one million dollars each season, to remove Airport Taxes, to remove utility bills paid by university students living on campus, to increase and give Ghanaians high quality infrastructure nationwide, loans from Western World will be abolished, Woyome will pay back our money, continuation of Mahama projects and we will use our oil wealth income to clear all Ghana's debt.»

«But right now, you're working with an administration who in their own infrastructure bill says that they're going to pay for it by oil and gas on federal lands, all over federal lands.

Probably the most controversial project thus far in Africa is a 1.2 - million - acre plantation in Congo being developed by Atama, a subsidiary of Wah Seong Corporation Berhad, a Malaysian oil and gas infrastructure company.

This segment supports the oil and gas drilling markets by providing hardware and support services to the energy and infrastructure markets.

Cash in on higher oil prices and growing demand for energy infrastructure by investing in Pembina Pipeline Corp. (TSX: PPL)(NYSE: PBA).

The project utilized the company's manufacturing infrastructure, which is the production of hand - made oil paintings for export to create 51 oil paintings (one by each artist).

Capturing and sequestering 16 % of current global annual CO2 output would entail managing a mass of material very close to the mass of the 80mb / d of crude oil handled by the oil industry's entire infrastructure heritage — which has taken over a century to build while being funded by the planet's most profitable enterprise.

Today's «Joint Statement on Climate, Energy, and Arctic Leadership» by President Obama and Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, contained lots of welcome environmental commitments, particularly on curbing emissions of methane leaking from existing oil and gas infrastructure.

So it keeps getting reanimated by the GOP, which is under pressure to bring it to life from two distinct sources: The oil industry, which, duh, wants the infrastructure and the new supply, and now, conservative pundits like Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.

Countless other methods of providing energy for other transportation infrastructures, which remain to be thought of by future generations, are Oil.

«Lead by issuing no further leases or permits for new oil and gas extraction projects or related transportation infrastructure.

We do need to invest in infrastructure in the face of the climate change we've already locked in, and if we don't simultaneously radically lower our emissions, and that by the way has huge implications for the industry that is the dominant industry in precisely the areas that are being hardest hit, the oil and gas industry, which is a major economic engine in Texas and Louisiana, and specifically in some of the areas that are being hardest hit, which is a whole other layer of risk that we have seen very little about.

There is a bitter irony to the idea that a storm, strengthened by human - caused climate change, carries the potential to destroy the very oil infrastructure that has contributed so much warming to our world.»

This means that in order to sequester just a fifth of current CO2 emissions we would have to create an entirely new worldwide absorption - gathering - compression - transportation - storage industry whose annual throughput would have to be about 70 percent larger than the annual volume now handled by the global crude oil industry whose immense infrastructure of wells, pipelines, compressor stations and storages took generations to build.Technically possible — but not within a timeframe that would prevent CO2 from rising above 450 ppm.

This weekend, communities from across the northeast San Francisco Bay came together in the fourth of four «connecting the dots» refinery Healing Walks that connected fenceline communities facing refineries and crude by rail oil infrastructure in Contra Costa County.

The country's energy infrastructure system was originally built to move oil and gas from the coasts, where it was delivered by ship, to the refining centers and populations inland.

We need an energy policy in California that will sharply reduce the use of fossil fuels by no longer granting new permits for exploration and allowing oil and gas infrastructure development.

Between 2010 and 2013, capital spending in the infrastructure that moves and transforms oil and gas into everyday products has increased by 60 percent.

A robust infrastructure system that is safe, efficient and properly maintained can help lower the costs of supplying oil and gas and its products for consumers, by reducing congestion, maximizing efficiency and preventing accidents.

The energy system is both a source of emissions that lead to global warming and it can also be directly affected by climate change: through changes in our energy consumption patterns, potential shutdowns of offshore oil and gas production, changing ice and snow conditions in the oil production regions of Alaska, changing sea ice conditions in the Arctic Ocean and the implications for shipping routes, and impacts of sea - level rise on coasts, where so much of our energy facility infrastructure is located.

Producing significant amounts of oil from offshore leases in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas is quite a few years away because of permitting delays, serial lawsuits filed by environmental pressure groups, and the physical challenges involved in building the necessary offshore infrastructure in the Arctic Ocean.

In the case of natural gas flaring, the production of oil is often accompanied by «associated gas», and if there is no infrastructure for the «secondary» energy resource, and no plan to make use of the «secondary» resource, then it effectively has no economic existence but can have an environmental existence.

At the same time, the budget bill came freighted with legislation intended to «streamline» environmental review processes in the hope of fast - tracking oil pipelines and other large energy infrastructure projects, and it has handed the Canada Revenue Agency $ 7 million to intensify its scrutiny of environmental charities — especially the ones labelled «foreign radicals» by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver in a fiery Globe and Mail op - ed calling for approval of Enbridge's $ 5 - billion Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta's oil sands to the coast of northern B.C.

• Scale: Achieving the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's long - term sequestration goals means boosting deep geological carbon dioxide storage from about 5 megatons per year to more than 22,000 megatons annually by the end of the century — an «unprecedented» undertaking that Mr. Thomson says will involve extensive new facilities and pipelines that would rival the world's oil industry infrastructure.

The cities themselves have conspired to create a public nuisance by providing infrastructure that the public used to facilitate the burning of oil products.

Indeed, it probably rivals the entire existing pipeline infrastructure deployed by the oil and gas industries.

It would require, by itself, re-creating the equivalent of the planet's entire oil delivery infrastructure.

The widespread environmental devastation caused by Hurricane Ike has been pretty well documented — the oil spills (about a half a million gallons worth), a missing drill rig, and destroyed pipelines and infrastructure were all bad

Shell, BP, Total UK and Centrica are just a few of the 15 oil and gas companies courted by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to help implement the Wood Review recommendation to maximise the economic recovery of UK petroleum (MER UK)-- a policy which is now law under the Infrastructure Act.

, ranks the largest publicly listed companies by the carbon intensity of their coal, oil, and gas reserves; the Clean200 ranks the largest publicly listed companies by their total clean energy revenues, with a few additional screens to help ensure the companies are indeed building the infrastructure and services needed for what Lester Brown and many others have called «The Great Energy Transition» in a just and equitable way.

Omone Foy - Yamah, a partner at Lagos - based Punuka Attorneys & Solicitors, agrees with Ajibade and says the resolution of such disputes by ADR often results in the preservation of business relationships which in turn increases business opportunities for Nigeria: «The oil and gas, maritime, construction and infrastructure sectors largely benefit from the use of ADR because they involve huge capital investments and risk huge financial losses if trapped in protracted litigation,» she says.

Described by colleagues as an «out - of - the box» thinker, she manages pan-African client relationships in both the public and private sector; covering hydrocarbons, mining, oil and gas infrastructure and power.